First Annual Wild Violet
Writing Contest (2003)

Poetry— First Place

Kent Clair Chamberlain was born in the Dickinson County Seat of Abilene, Kansas. He lived across from a large family living in a house where a suicide had occurred, but who never seemed to mind. He attended Southern Oregon College.

East Main Nocturne
By Kent Clair Chamberlain

Bright new
Neons
Reveal old
Building faces
Known since stroller
Hours
Advanced to
Snowy
Years.